Word: telexing
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...Tudor office building in Buenos Aires, a clattering telex last week typed out more than 1,000 messages a day from the four corners of the world. There was news of jute prices in Calcutta, of harvest prospects in Illinois, and of grain shipments from Australia. All these reports had the same addressee: Bunge & Born Ltd., a firm so powerful that Argentines call it "El Pulpo"-the Octopus...
Tears in the Lobby. When the news of Hammarskjold's missing plane clattered into Manhattan on the Telex line direct from Leopoldville, shocked secretariat officials rushed to the cable room on the U.N. skyscraper's 38th floor, hovered anxiously for hours over the machine. When the final bulletin confirmed the Secretary's death, one high-ranking officer turned to another. "I suppose we should lower the flag." he said dully. "Yes." replied the other, "perhaps we should." Below, news was already spreading from floor to floor. Pale and shaken employees gathered in groups in the corridors...
Running the country almost single-handed ("I am one man alone"), he installed a Telex communications system beside his desk, with two fingers banged out a steady stream of bilhetinhos to government offices around the nation. Once, very early in the game, he Telexed a Cabinet minister's office: "The President has been waiting for you since 7 a.m. I would like to know when you plan to arrive." Answered the minister's man at the keyboard: "Colleague, the minister will arrive when he arrives." Brazil's chief executive tapped back: "This colleague here is the President...
That night the Telex in Vienna spelled out a broken message...
...right to strike again if he failed in his promise. The question was whether the workers, like the miners, who threatened to flood the pits rather than accept Kadar, would heed the bidding of their committee or Grubennyik's threat. If they did not, said the unknown Telex operator, the only thing left to the Soviet leaders was to bring Nagy back. Clattered irrepressible Budapest's irrepressible ghostwriter...